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The Pentagon may have given the Sunni “Sons of Iraq” the dough and weapons to fight al Qaeda for the American cause, but according to Wired Magazine, these now-targeted fighters were left with a far more deadlier token for their troubles.
Warhawks have embraced — very matter-of-factly– the efficiency and technological wizbangery behind the hand-held [...]
Just when Americans were getting to know the Sons of Iraq, otherwise known as the “Sunni Awakening” — if only at the base level of whether they began B.S or A.S.S (Before Surge or After the Senator’s Surge) — they seem to be breaking up. More succinctly, they are being targeted for termination.
Reports over [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Iraq, War
When a leading book review like The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) decides to display a review of a certain book on its cover, it usually means that the editors believe that that is a notable book that ought to be read by, or at least draw the attention of the intellectual elites as [...]
Filed under: Books, Foreign policy, Iraq
Gen. David Petraeus might be spreading the word that he’s ready to pull a combat brigade out of Iraq by year’s end, but don’t take the ticker tape out yet. Apparently, the Army is ready to shift the balance to Afghanistan, where Taliban killed ten French soldiers and attacked a US base on Tuesday. According [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Iraq, War
Brent Stephens is bragging in the WSJ about winning a bet on the Iraq War. Apparently he made a $100 bet with Francis Fukuyama in May 2003 after the recoverning neocon — who was for the war before he was against it – predicted that the war “would be a mess five years after the invasion, the definition of [...]
Filed under: Iraq
The Politico reports that Ron Suskind’s new book claims the Bush administration suborned the CIA to forge “a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein,” linking Iraq to al-Qaeda. What the Politco doesn’t mention, but the Anonymous Liberal blog picks up, is that the allegedly forged letter also advanced the [...]
Filed under: Iraq
Kelley Vlahos and Justin Raimondo (among others) have done a great job in pointing to the way the figures measuring the effects of the surge are being exploited by Bush, McCain and other members of the pro-war coalition. As Juan Cole and others have maintained, the relative reduction in violence in Baghdad and some parts [...]
There has been clearly a huge gap between the MSM’s glowing reviews of Barack Obama’s world tour and its impact voters who seem to be more inclined to vote for John McCain now. My explanation of the apparent paradox — the candidate’s great media visuals that slowdown his electoral momentum: Obama fell into the trap [...]
John McCain slid into Rush Limbaugh territory this week when he said “Obama would rather lose a war to win a political campaign.” But when will someone ask McCain publicly if he’s willing to lose the Army to win a politicial campaign?
Bill Sasser has a powerful piece up on Salon today about how the Army [...]
While John McCain continues to stoke the narrative that Barack Obama’s youth and inexperience on Capitol Hill could be a danger to the country, some of the seeds of his own decades-long tenure in Washington — his “judgment” and “leadership” — are starting to bloom stink weeds. $4 billion dollars worth. Seems that while McCain, [...]